More on installing 32bit applications on 64bit Debian Linux

While downloading the free, for private use, edition of Teamviewer for Linux, I found this How do I install TeamViewer on my Linux distribution? where in the section for Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu… I found a simple way for the installation of 32bit packages on 64bit Debian.

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For the 32-bit package:

sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb

In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:

sudo apt-get install -f

For this to work, of course, you need multiarch-support.

In the same page is also explained why the 64bit precompiled packages, cannot be installed on multiarch systems.

On newer 64-bit DEB-systems with Multiarch-support (Debian 7) teamviewer_linux_x64.deb cannot be installed because the package ia32-libs is not available anymore on these systems. In this case you can use teamviewer_linux.deb instead.

In case you get the error “wrong architecture i386” you have to execute the following command lines: